We meet every Monday at 12:15 pm for lunch at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel, 240 Brownlow Avenue in Dartmouth.

Please join us
for lunch and enjoy the fun & fellowship of Rotary.

To learn more about our club & Rotary in
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Boston Christmas Tree Lighting

On Thursday evening, club members Marg & Don
Chisholm and PDG Tom McCaughey attended the
Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Boston along
with Rotarians from other Halifax & Boston clubs,
Premier Stephen McNeil and Mayor Mike Savage.
Next year Rotarians from Boston will join us here in
Halifax in remembrance of the Halifax explosion.

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Painting Margaret's House

On the 21st and 22nd of October a crew of
dedicated Rotarians from the Rotary Club of
Dartmouth got together to added a fresh coat of
paint to the Margaret's House soup kitchen in
downtown Dartmouth.

Margaret's House is run by the Feeding Others of
Dartmouth Society, or F.O.O.D.
and provides nutritious meals seven days a week,
with lunches every day and suppers on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Approximately 3,000 meals
are served each month. If you would like to
learn about Margaret's House...

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The 12 Wines of Christmas

The Rotary Club of Dartmouth

Annual Christmas Dinner

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The Rotary Water Barrel

In Africa and developing countries around the world,
women and children carry their own weight in water,
in dirty jerry cans and containers, not just from a
local pump (a few hundred yards away) but sometimes
over 6 miles or even further, just to survive.The
Rotary Water Barrel is the INSTANT solution!

RI President John F. Germ said that being part of Rotary is a "great opportunity" to make change happen. Germ unveiled the 2016-17 presidential theme "Rotary Serving Humanity" to the incoming district governors on 18 January at the Internationla Assembly in San Diego. Watch his full speech below.

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The
Rotary Foundation...to see the new
Rotary Foundation page under the Rotary World
tab....click
here

Salvation Army Christmas Kettle
December 21st at the Dartmouth Crossing Walmart.

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DG Elva Heyge Addresses Club
On
November 7th Elva Heyge
our District Governor (DG) addressed our Club.She opened with comments
about what inspired her to commit her time to Rotary. It was
an encounter with a Youth Exchange Student, before and after
a youth exchange to Brazil that led her to go there on a
Friendship Exchange.While there she learned of
a potential humanitarian project but it was too large to
fund solely by her Club.However, not to be
daunted, she applied for and was successful in obtaining
Rotary Foundation funding which made the project a reality.The end result provided a
tangible benefit to more than 400 children & their families
in Brazil.
For these reasons, our DG is a strong proponent of Youth
Exchange, Friendship Exchange and the Rotary Foundation.
DG Elva Heyge
seen above with President Marg Chisholm.

October 24th SpeakersDr. Alex Mitchell, general
surgeon, and Adrienne Malloy CEO of the Darmouth General
Hospital Foundation provided infornmation on the
redevelopment of the Dartmouth General Hospital. This
project will not only benefit Dartmouth, but all of Halifax.
For more details.............

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photo)

October 17th Speaker Luke MacDonald spoke to the club
on with an update on three important initiatives:1. The
Sparks program to deploy stationary bikes into
classrooms to foster active learning.2.
The Solar Hub project in Gambia, intended to make
fun things possible through communication & connection.
3. The Fit-It-Forward program which collects
donations of used shoes & to purchase new, clearance priced
shoes for the homeless and near-homeless in Halifax.

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October 3rd Speaker
Rey Peralta of the non-profit
group Pasos de Esperanza from the Dominican Republic gave a
presentation on his group's efforts. The group hosted
Dartmouth High Students this year in the Dominican. Heather
Hughes, Dartmouth High Liaison, is pictured with Rey as well
as Rotarian Robert Earle, our International Chair. To see
his presentation

September 12th Speaker
Glenn Bowie is Board Chair for Waterski & Wakeboard Canada
and a member of the Rotary Club of Halifax Harbourside.
On Sept. 12th Glenn gave our club a very interesting and
informative talk on competitive waterskiing & wakeboarding
in Canada and internationally.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Guatemala Project
Featured.Robert Earle is shown holding the September issue of
the Rotarian magazine, in which our project in Guatemala is
pictured...Read More

Hospice Halifax.The six HRM Rotary Clubs have banded together to make a Hospice in
Halifax a reality...Read
More